Are you one of the five people I'll meet in heaven???

I'm nearly through with The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I have two more people to go. Arrgghh... rushing to finish the book by tomorrow so that I can watch the movie version on Hallmark channel, if not I've got to tape it. Grrr...

Though Tuesdays with Morrie is more inspiring, 5 people you meet in Heaven makes you wonder who are the 5 people who have touched you or whose lives you have touched (knowingly or unknowingly).

I've always known heaven as a final resting place where you get everlasting peace and joy, where you'll go back to our Father, our creator. Yet in this book, it is being portrayed as a place where you make sense of your life where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it.

There are 5 lessons to be learnt. Most we've already known but for different people, at different stages of their life, these lessons would be intepreted differently. So go ahead and fibgure what these mean to you.

LESSON 1:

"All lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone; it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and missed, lives are changed. "

"No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."

"There are five people you meet in Heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth" - The Blue Man

Hmm... I'm wondering who are the five people I'll meet or if I've even met anyone of them yet. Perhaps only one so far.

LESSON 2:

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. " - Captain

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."

Hmm... but its so hard to let go...

LESSON 3:

"Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge."

"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves." - Ruby

Hmm... such a common point of view yet when you are in that state, it is often hard to get out. Silence.......................................

LESSON 4 & 5: (to be continued)

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